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Former vice minister under investigation

Source: Agencies | January 4, 2017, Wednesday | Print Edition

CHINA’S corruption watchdog is investigating a former vice minister of the aviation regulator, saying he paid below-market price for property during his tenure.

Xia Xinghua, who worked in the Civil Aviation Administration of China from 2009 to 2014, has been expelled from the Party, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said yesterday.

Xia, who often represented the administration in meetings with foreign executives and regulators, also took holidays in the guise of work trips and played golf which others had paid for, the watchdog said.

“As a leading Party cadre, Xia had a weak concept of discipline and violated Party regulations,” it said in a statement on its Website, employing the usual euphemism for graft.

In April 2014, after leaving the aviation regulator, Xia became chairman of the China Civil Airports Association, according to the airport body’s Website.

China’s crackdown on graft has swept through several industries and led to the arrest and jailing of senior officials and company executives. In 2015, the watchdog announced a probe into the deputy head of the aviation regulator.

Also yesterday, a former Party chief of Zhumadian in central China’s Henan Province was sentenced to life in prison for taking vast sums in bribes.

Xuchang City Intermediate People’s Court in Henan convicted Liu Guoqing of accepting bribes totalling 67.99 million yuan (US$9.8 million) and HK$100,000 (US$12,893) when he held the posts of deputy head of the provincial public security department, as well as mayor and Party chief of Zhumadian.

Liu accepted the bribes to help others with promotion and construction projects, the court said. He was deprived of his political rights for life, and his personal property was confiscated. Liu said he will appeal the verdict.

Meanwhile, in the central province of Hunan, local prosecutors are investigating Zhou Jianxiong, former board chairman of Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Group, on suspicion of accepting bribes.

The Hunan procuratorate has assigned prosecutors in the city of Loudi to investigate, according to a Supreme People’s Procuratorate statement.

Zhou is under compulsory measures, a legal term that can cover arrest, detention, summons, bail pending trial or residential surveillance.

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